'Equivocation' imagines play Bard didn't write

From SF Chronicle:

"What is it like to write in a time of terror?

That's the question that came to playwright Bill Cain after a visit to the Tower of London, Britain's notorious royal prison across the river from where Shakespeare wrote his plays.

Cain's multilayered play, 'Equivocation,' now in previews at the Marin Theatre Company's Boyer Theatre, imagines the Bard commissioned by the Crown to write a play about the thwarted Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in which a group of Roman Catholics allegedly aimed to blow up Parliament (including king and court) to protest anti-Catholic oppression but were caught, tortured and executed. If he writes the king's version, he will be handsomely rewarded. If he writes the truth, it could cost him his life.

'When we think of English history, we think largely of what Shakespeare gave us,' says Cain on a momentary break from rehearsals in Mill Valley. 'And Shakespeare was writing in support of a corrupt regime. He was on the king's payroll. And the king was, among other things, a torturer suppressing dissent from a minority. So he wrote his history with a very particular slant. This (play) is an exploration of him exploring the other side of what he wrote.'"

This sounds like riveting stuff. I wonder if a play like this has any chance of making it to New York.